...dead predecessors and a display of the first of the exhibition's 100 or so artifacts. The show business vibe accelerates further with Zahi Hawass , the controversial Cairo archaeologist, appearing on a video loop about halfway through the...

In this article: King Tut, Las Vegas, Steve Martin, Banana, Egyptology, Harrison Ford, Michael Jackson, and Anubis

...eternal sunshine into royal crypts and crowded souks. News cables dispatched the story around the globe: English archaeologist Howard Carter had made the find of his life. By candlelight, he peered into a lost tomb in the blistered crags of...

In this article: Egypt, Nile, Cairo, Luxor, Herodotus, Tutankhamun, Howard Carter, Johann Burckhardt, Giza, and Aswan

...and curator-in-charge of the Egyptian section of the university 's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. One of his graduate students, Zahi Hawass , became Egypt 's secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities,which is...

In this article: Toronto, Egyptology, and University of Chicago

... UC Irvine clinical professor of cardiology Dr. Gregory Thomas , and a team of US and Egyptian cardiologists, joined by experts in Egyptology and preservation, selected 20 mummies on display and in the basement of the Museum of Egyptian...

In this article: Atherosclerosis, Calcification, Egyptology, Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cattle, Arthritis, Stroke, and Siemens

...was afflicted with atherosclerosis, arthritis and dental decay. Thomas and a team of US and Egyptian cardiologists, joined by experts in Egyptology and preservation, selected 20 mummies on display for scanning on a Siemens 6 slice CT scanner...

In this article: Calcification, Egyptology, Journal of the American Medical Association, Arthritis, King Tutankhamun, University of California, and Siemens

...display Egypt 's mummies. Since the small, four-roomed tomb and its famous golden burial mask were discovered in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter , observers have noted strange brown spots marring the wall paintings. Chemical BPA...

In this article: Tutankhamun, McDonald's, Egypt, Cairo, and Journal of the American Medical Association

...myth - such as the idea that the Mycenaean Greeks have much to do with the Homeric epics, a mistaken notion popularized when Heinrich Schliemann claimed to have "gazed on the face of Agamemnon " when he excavated a beautiful golden mask in a...

In this article: Pindar, Agamemnon, Rome, Athens, Turkey, France, and Democracy

...that has come to mind is with 1920s Britain. I have spent much of the past three years in the desert (metaphorically) with T.E. Lawrence , working on a biography, and during this time I have been continually struck by the similarities...

In this article: Barack Obama, US, Britain, Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, Hamid Karzai, T.E. Lawrence, Reactionary, Recession, and Unemployment

...wall paintings. "I always see the tomb of King Tut and wonder about those spots, which no scientist has been able to explain," said Zahi Hawass , the head of the SCA, in a statement yesterday. "Now I am happy that the Getty will look at the...

In this article: King Tut, Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass, Egypt, Howard Carter, Archaeologists, and California

...mask and artifacts have long awed the world. AP Photo FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007 file photo, Egypt 's antiquities chief Dr. Zahi Hawass , center, supervises the removal of King Tut from his stone sarcophagus in his underground...

In this article: King Tut, Tutankhamun, Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egypt, Howard Carter, Archaeologists, and Luxor, Egypt

...the tomb of King Tut and wonder about those spots, which no scientist has been able to explain," said Zahi Hawass , the head of the SCA, in a statement. "Now I am happy that the Getty will look at the tomb and preserve its beautiful scenes,"...

In this article: Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass, Egypt, Howard Carter, Archeologists, Leukemia, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The tomb of Tutankhamun was very well preserved The Egyptian mud-brick house of British archaeologist Howard Carter has been re-opened as a museum. Carter was living in the house 87 years ago when he made his most famous discovery, the...

In this article: Howard Carter, Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, and The Egyptian

...Faisal, later King Faisal of Iraq , told him that he would command greater respect in Arab dress, especially if he looked like a nobleman. Lawrence , in his account of his campaign in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom , recalled that the "splendid...

In this article: T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, Ashmolean Museum, First World War, University of Oxford, and Central Asia

...to the second wife of the author 's second husband. After Christie's first marriage, she married the distinguished archaeologist Max Mallowan. After her death he married Barbara Parker , who donated the basket to UCL. Among its contents is...

In this article: Agatha Christie, Joseph Lister, University College London, Stanley Baldwin, Tim Burton, Southampton, Archaeology, Golden Eagle, and Miss Marple

...01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 08, 2009 (Single Page View) | Return to Paginated View Renowned Pacific archaeologist and anthropologist Roger C. Green , a former Bishop Museum staff member and University of Hawaii professor, died Sunday at his...

In this article: Roger C. Green, Archaeology, Pacific, New Zealand, Bishop Museum, Hawaii, E mail, Web-based, and Auckland University

... tobacco , had water thrown over him by a servant who thought he was on fire. Greenway was as lovely as Christie remembered, and her husband Max Mallowan thought the setting 'idyllic'. Christie asked the price, and was astonished by the answer,...

In this article: Agatha Christie, Max Mallowan, National Trust, and Walter Raleigh

...circle 10 metres in diameter and surrounded by a henge - a ditch with an external bank, according the project director, Professor Mike Parker Pearson , of the University of Sheffield. The stones at the site were removed thousands of years...

In this article: Stonehenge, Mike Parker Pearson, Archaeologists, University of Sheffield, University of Bristol, and Durrington Walls

...give remarkable insight into the working and private lives of the Roman garrison. The Sutton Hoo ship-burial In 1938, archaeologist Basil Brown was asked to investigate 18 low mounds by a local land owner, Edith Pretty , near Ipswich.

In this article: Silver, British Museum, Britain, Ipswich, Lewis, Battle of Hexham, Edward IV, Basil Brown, and George V